31The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; …
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-32)The promises of corn, and wine, and oil, in the Joel 2:12-27, would be very acceptable to a wasted country; but here we are taught that we must not rest in those things. God has reserved some better things for us, and these verses have reference to those better things, both the kingdom of grace and the kingdom of glory, with the happiness of true believers in both. We are here told, I. How the kin…
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